How can I stop taking diabetes medications? This is a question I wish I had the answer to, but I can’t and don’t have the answer. What I have for you in this piece is a true story I encountered in the line of my work.
Blind with kidney failure
They entered the office where I was to speak to him. He came in the company of his wife, was adored in a long robe, and he was accompanied by his wife. She appeared very supportive, holding his hand and guiding him to his seat.
How can I stop taking diabetes medications
When he sat, we began to talk. My question on his first symptom sparked this piece I have put here. He mentioned how he woke up one morning and then suddenly realized his vision had become blurred. Apparently, that was the beginning of his blindness.
Later on, he had swollen feet and had to visit the hospital. Before his feet began swelling, he had been attending the eye clinic, was referred to the diabetic clinic too and was put on medications.
As our conversion went on, his wife interjected and told me point blank “He stopped taking his medicines for one whole year”
In short, the man was diabetic and hypertensive, he had been put on medications, and he stopped taking them
This is that alarm bell I have been ringing for years. Take your medications.
As it is, Alhaji (not his real name) has gone totally blind. Mind you, diabetes can cause blindness, high blood pressure, uncontrolled can cause chronic kidney disease, and then diabetes is the number one cause of kidney disease too.
So if you are living with these two and decide to abandon your drugs, you are only sitting on a time bomb
Alhaji’s wife was full of tears while talking to me, she wishes the situation can be reversed but no! It is too late.
She has to be with a blind husband who has end stage renal disease.
Being blind alone is not a joke, living with end stage renal disease and requiring dialysis is even much more serious considering the financial demands that comes with it.
In my personal capacity, I keep drumming the same beat. Take your medications.
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